UCL

Mount William

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (9)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1794 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Sharpe
1794 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
George Fraser
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
William Glenn

Glenn held security over 50 enslaved people and 189 acres of the estate in 1794.

1794 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Joint owner
Samuel Clapham

Highly tentative association only

1798 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Joint owner
Bryan Blake
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Valentine O'Connor
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Malachy O'Connor
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner
Martin Blake
1830 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Cecilia Blake

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 470 (Mount William)
£5,052 14S 9D

Estate Information (8)

What is this?

1798
[Name] Mount William  
 

Under a deed of 01/01/1798 Bryan Blake and James Lowe purchased the estate known as Mount William in St Vincent, appraised at £24,960, from the trustees and executors of Henry Sharpe and Samuel Parker Clapham, conditional among other things on Sharpe's trustees indemnifying Blake and Lowe against a mortgage taken out by Sharpe from James Newbigging of the City of London to cover the purchase money of another estate, Ratho Mill.

Deed Book 1800, British Library, EAP688/1/1/11, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-11 pp. 339 et seq.

1799
[Name] Mount William  
 

An indenture of 'this day August 1799' between George Fraser of City Chambers, William Fraser of Queen Square Bloomsbury, Joseph Warner the younger of Gower Street, Bryan Blake late of St Vincent but now of Antigua and Henry Sharp and the heirs of Samuel Parker Clapham, gave the elaborate background to Mount William including: (1) a mortgage by Sharp and Clapham to George Fraser 01/01/1794, subject to existing mortgages of £3000 to Aretas Akers and security held by William Glen[n] over 50 enslaved people and 189 acres of the estate; (2) a bond of 12 and 13/04/1795 for the penal sum of £10,000 from Sharp and Clapham to Joseph Warner to secure a loan of £5000; a bond of 27/02 'last' [presumably 1799] of £6804 from Joseph Warner to William Fraser to secure a loan of £3202, further secured by assignment of the bond from Sharp and Clapham; (3) the paying off by Bryan Blake of the mortgage of George Fraser, then given as £4700.

Deed Book 1800, British Library, EAP688/1/1/11, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-11 p. 239 et seq.

 
Deed Book 1800, British Library, EAP688/1/1/11, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-11 p. 239 et seq
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Mount William Estate  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late Val O'Connor of Dublin and Malaky O'Connor [John Smyth as manager].

 
T71/493 36-41
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot) 116(F) 119(M)  
[Name] Mount William Estate  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late Val O'Connor and M Blake.

 
T71/495 19-20
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot) 111(F) 111(M)  
[Name] Mount William Estate  
 

Belonging to the heirs of V O 'Connor, and to M Blake.

 
T71/497 15-16
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot) 112(F) 108(M)  
[Name] Mount William Estate  
 

Mount William Estate. Statement sworn by James Donelan.

 
T71/497 34-35
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot) 96(F) 93(M)  
[Name] Mount William Estate  
 

Miss Cecilia Blake. Statement sworn by Charles McPherson [44 deaths].

 
T71/499 23-25
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot) 98(F) 90(M)  
[Name] Mount William Estate  
 

Mount William Estate. The property of Miss Cecilia Blake. Statement sworn by Duncan McDonald. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 188 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 35-37